He would walk in first ready to fight, unless someone else steps in first....
The bolt flies wide. Jorne charges in with crowbar in hand... next door...
St. John steps through the door the second it is opened to secure the room.
Quince moves in to support the others.
Dinenen keeps watching for other foes to appear from somewhere other than the doorway. Just in case.
Delilah stays outside with Iodren for now who is busy licking his wounds.
Who is soon joined by an Elf as he guards them both, looking out for more dangers...
You can see that the creature is shooting through arrow slits in the walls. Jorne gets to the door and using the crowbar begins to pull on it...
Lykàn looks in anticipation of the shots and decides to join in the fun..
He too draws his bow and nocks an arrow. Aiming very carefully, he attempts a shot through the arrow slit.
"Anybody wonders what happens if you blocked up his sight?" as he uses his arrow to pinpoint the particular slit.
While waiting outside, Delilah uses her pearl of power to recover a spell she previously cast.
You can see that the creature is shooting through arrow slits in the walls. Jorne gets to the door and using the crowbar begins to pull on it...
In two rounds he takes the second door off its hinges and opens the door letting anyone else through to go after the sniper!
The spriggan is on the other side of the wall shooting its crossbow through the arrow slit. You still don't see any other spriggans.
Lykan tries shooting back through the slit but hits the wall instead.
It takes Jorne two rounds to get the next door open too!
St. John, Jorne, and Quince are within the building now.
Round 1
Door busts open thanks to Jorne. The three move in and the bolt misses the group.
Round 2
Jorne moves to the next door and tries to open it. The little spriggan moves and is really hard to hear or see. The bolt flies out of another arrow slit next to St. John and sticks him for 8 damage.
+8
Round 3
Jorne opens the next door. The little spriggan moves again quietly... the shot misses this time even though St. John lost track of the little one again.
Quince mutters a prayer and puts his thumbs and blasts a gout of flame through the arrow slit.
The monk patiently waits for the group to continue moving in so that there's room to include him without over-crowding the members already inside.
St. John rushes through the open door and up to the spriggan.
Quince hears in delight as the sprig hollers in pain and drops to the ground to put out the flames.
St. John attacks the spriggan as it is standing up. Though with his flacheta the small dark gnome drops again.
"Quince, let them know they should advance into the tower. I will move forward..." With that said quietly he moves quickly.
The group can hear a bit of commotion and a yell of some kind.
The elf waits.
Such close quarter combat isn't his style..........
"Help them Iodren. Kill the spriggans." The tiger stands up and growls low before following the others into the tower with Quince and John.
St. John moves back and peeks around the corner and up the stairs. He then calls back to Jorne "Jorne! Do you need help?"
"I can try to toss you past the flames."
He exclaims back at Quince, "What?! No! I won't let you toss me up those stairs. Anyone have something to put out the flames?" He scrunches up his nose at the thought of it and shakes his head.
Turning back towards the others waiting outside. "Sounds like they've blocked the path with a fire of some sort. Anyone have a way to put it out, or maybe able to climb the wall and drop a rope for us to go around the fire?"
Hearing that the path has being blocked, the red haired elf strides forward and mimes drawing his bow.
An arrow composed of solely water forms and is fired toward the stone....
He exclaims back at Quince, "What?! No! I won't let you toss me up those stairs. Anyone have something to put out the flames?" He scrunches up his nose at the thought of it and shakes his head.
Quince raises an eybrow, "Seriously I could grow bigger and I mean our djinni friend has pumped these bad boy up." He indicates his arms with a look to each shoulder.
As Lykan moves in he smiles, "A water arrow?" He makes a face confirming that is no further outside the bounds of reality as anything else he has seen.
Lykàn shrugs.
"It works. There was a time I had to put out a fire from a bunch of reckless hunters."
Lykan puts out the fire that is on the boulder. The tar down the stairs stills burns. Though with one or two more uses of his water 'arrow' the flames are fully smothered. A horrible smell fills the levels of the tower.
The character takes a –2 penalty on all attack rolls, weapon damage rolls, saving throws, skill checks, and ability checks.
Quince looks towards the others, "They likely have more big rocks. Jorne my shield front yours up top we can take the stairs together." He indicates with his hands a two person tortoise formation. He looks to Lykan, "Keep your bow nocked and ready hit any foe that appears at the top perhaps that will throw off their aim. Follow close we will want to overwhelm them at the top of the stairs."
Standing at the door with the smoke pouring out, but no sounds of the crew heading up the stairs, Dinenen starts expressing some concern. "" and he moves in to see if there's somethign obvious he can do to help.
Doesn't look like there is.
St. John prepares to follow up the stairs shortly behind Quince and Jorne.
With the quick movement of securing the shield to his arm he prepares to ascend with it in front and the longsword in his main hand.
Quickly shifting into the stance of the aggressor he opens himself to attack to deal more damage.
As Quince and Jorne advance up the hardened tar covered stairs the large spriggan appears again with another flaming boulder.
If Lykan is not able to hit the spriggan then it throws the boulder down slamming into Jorne's shield.
Jorne is able to deflect the boulder to the side as they advance! In the next moment Jorne is all the way up and adjacent to the spriggan. Flaming sword crashing against the searing skin of the gnome. It crumples to the floor and the other scatter. Hiding like the cowards they are.
The boulder covered in tar rolls down the stairs lighting the rest of the tar on fire again...
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Lykàn wrinkles his nose at the smell. It definitely wasn't the smell one accustomed to the woodlands or wilds would appreciate. Spotting the spriggan though his actions springs forth!
A silent twang is all there is to his actions as an arrow flies towards its target.
Lykan's attack actually knocks the arm of the spriggan making it drop the boulder above. Then with Jorne's attack finishes the spriggan. The flames don't travel back down the staircase.
The yellow and green spriggans are small and shoot their crossbows at Jorne in surprise. Flecks of saliva drip from the corners of this filthy and ill-smelling humanoids, and their large pointed ears twitch at every sound.
It quickly shrinks back down to its small size.
Jorne does not stop there, he pushes the large spriggan to the side as it falls to the ground. He easily dodges the bolts shot at him and charges the yellow one, plunging the burning blade into its flesh with a side chop.
Still in his agressive stance the sword misses the gnome by a hair.
St. John moves up the stairs and the attacks the spriggan.
Quince looks about at the top of the stairs with the door ways filled with allies Quince keeps a watch on the unopened door.
The gnomes work on getting away actively withdrawing from the fight along the corridors.
Jorne follows the spriggan and attacks it.
Still in his agressive stance the sword hits the gnome this time.
St. John follows the spriggan as it retreats.
Quince chases down one of the spriggans.
Iodren chases after a spriggan, pouncing on it as it tries to get away.
The monk follows the others up to the next level, and then follows the Baron.
The spriggans each stow their crossbows and pull their swords free. The tiger has trouble following in such tight spaces and waits to pounce as Jorne opens a door, then charges into the room.
As Quince chases after the spriggan another one attacks from a doorway. The other two spriggans move away to find a larger room...